Hannibal Brooks
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Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film about a prisoner of war who escapes through the Alps with an elephant, directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hannibal Brooks canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7191355 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannibal Brooks Context triple: [Michael Winner, notableWork, Hannibal Brooks]
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A.
Slimm Calhoun
Slimm Calhoun is an American rapper from Atlanta best known for his work with the Dungeon Family collective and his early-2000s solo material.
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B.
Blackford Oakes
Blackford Oakes is a fictional American CIA agent and Cold War spy created by William F. Buckley Jr.
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C.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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D.
Abner Nash
Abner Nash was an American lawyer and politician who served as the second governor of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era.
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E.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannibal Brooks Target entity description: Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film about a prisoner of war who escapes through the Alps with an elephant, directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed.
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A.
Slimm Calhoun
Slimm Calhoun is an American rapper from Atlanta best known for his work with the Dungeon Family collective and his early-2000s solo material.
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B.
Blackford Oakes
Blackford Oakes is a fictional American CIA agent and Cold War spy created by William F. Buckley Jr.
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C.
Isham Randolph
Isham Randolph was an 18th-century Virginia planter and sea captain, best known as the grandfather of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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D.
Abner Nash
Abner Nash was an American lawyer and politician who served as the second governor of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era.
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E.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British war comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Michael Winner ⓘ |
| cinematography | Robert Paynter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Michael Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Frederick Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elephantCharacterName | Lucy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Austria
NERFINISHED
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Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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war comedy film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasAnimalCharacter | elephant ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
anti-war
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friendship between man and animal ⓘ survival behind enemy lines ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Oliver Reed as Stephen Brooks ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Stephen Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Francis Lai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | escape of a POW with an elephant through enemy territory ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A British prisoner of war escapes through the Alps with an elephant from a German zoo during World War II. ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Oakmont Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Dick Clement
NERFINISHED
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Ian La Frenais NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Alps
NERFINISHED
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Helmut Lohner
NERFINISHED
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Karin Baal NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael J. Pollard NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolfgang Preiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1940s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hannibal Brooks Description of subject: Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film about a prisoner of war who escapes through the Alps with an elephant, directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed.
Referenced by (2)
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